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"Start off every day with a smile and get it over with."
-- W.C Fields
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"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
-- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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"Sex is like pizza. Even when it is bad it is good."
-- Mel Brooks
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"One's real life is often the life that one does not lead."
(Or is it: "To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead." - same idea though)
-- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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"Have no fear of perfection -- you'll never reach it."
-- Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)
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"Sex is like pizza. Even when it is bad it is good."
-- Mel Brooks
My man Mel!! I just learned with sadness that the only Broadway show I've ever seen, Young Frankenstein, will close Jan. 5. :'(
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"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy."
-- Robert Anthony
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Nice thread, Roland!
:)
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thanks Lynne ;) Glad you like it.
"The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime."
-- Mignon McLaughlin
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"I don't care what people think of me. What matters is what I think of them".
Queen Victoria
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"Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made."
Prince Otto von Bismarck
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like these!!
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"The English navy runs on two things--gin and buggery."
Winston Churchill
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"I can resist anything, except temptation."
---Oscar Wilde
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"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
---Benjamin Franklin
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"Cocaine is God's way of telling someone they're making too much money."
~ somebody during the late 1970s
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"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
---Benjamin Franklin
"Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world."
Kaiser Wilhelm II
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"Sex is like pizza. Even when it is bad it is good."
-- Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks lived too long in places with good pizza. When you don't live in such places, when a pizza is bad, it sucks.
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Mel Brooks lived too long in places with good pizza. When you don't live in such places, when a pizza is bad, it sucks.
...and had too much good sex.
neither premise works in my book!
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"It doesn't take all kinds...there just are all kinds."
Winston Churchill
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"Truth is subject to too much analysis."
-- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
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"Everything you can imagine is real."
-- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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"When you're through changing, you're through."
-- Bruce Barton
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"The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. "
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)
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"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."
-- Wayne Gretzky
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"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
note from the Sheriff
I asked you to modify your post and you didn't, so I moved the thread in my blog I deleted your comment.
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"It is better to be looked over than overlooked."
-- Mae West (1892 - 1980)
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"A woman can never be too thin or too rich."
Wallis Simpson
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"Can't we just all get along?"
Rodney King
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"Dem dat do, do.
Dem dat don't, don't.
Sometimes,
Dem dat don't, try.
And fuck up bad. "
--a drunk I once knew. :o
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"Dem dat do, do.
Dem dat don't, don't.
Sometimes,
Dem dat don't, try.
Maybe should..........?
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"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be
pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
-- Elizabeth Taylor
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"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather
fear that it shall never have a beginning."
-- John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
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"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."
-- Karl Marx
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"Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth."
-- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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"This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."
-- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
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"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
-- W. Somerset Maugham
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"Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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"Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place."
-- Billy Crystal
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"Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place."
-- Billy Crystal
:D
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"The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass."
-- Margaret Cho
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"When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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"My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpets or ruin our lives."
--Rita Rudner
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"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."
-- Lady Blessington
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"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."
-- Bill Cosby
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“No modern conservative ever met a word he couldn’t happily debase and weaponize, as any summary of their vocabulary shows:
Repeating “No Child Left Behind” is how conservatives have destroyed public education. Repeating “Big Government” is how conservatives have destroyed law and regulation in the financial markets and created an unprecedented privatization golem in everything from prisons to airport security theater. Repeating “Liberal Media” is how cultural conservatives pretend that college professors, and not corporate boardrooms, determine what is presented as news on television. Repeating “Tax and Spend” is how conservatives have pitted the people against the government, and therefore themselves. Repeating “Socialism” is how conservatives deny the barest notion of a public interest. And now, repeating “Obama Recession” is how conservatives will pretend that thirty years of laissez-faire deregulatory free-market worship never even happened, let alone are responsible for the coming months and years of crisis.”
-- Rob Warmowski, March 12 2009 in HuffPo
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-warmowski/a-year-in-david-mamets-ma_b_173962.html
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"We all have thoughts that would shame the devil."
-- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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"One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats."
-- Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
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"The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is."
-- John Lancaster Spalding
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"The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation."
-- Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919 - 2000)
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"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone,
but they've always worked for me."
-- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
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"One should count each day a separate life."
-- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.
If you can fake that, you've got it made."
-- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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"My friends, watch out for the little fellow with an idea."
-- Tommy Douglas (1904 - 1986)
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"Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?"
-- Spike Milligan
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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"Fashion is for people who don't know who they are."
-- Quentin Crisp
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"The highest result of education is tolerance."
-- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), "Optimism," 1903
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"Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?"
-- Spike Milligan
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Spike Milligan rocked!
"The highest result of education is tolerance."
-- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), "Optimism," 1903
:D
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"Sometimes we could not bear the face of each other's differences because of what we feared it might say about ourselves."
-- Audre Lorde
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'Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you."
-- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
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"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
-- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
(guilty!)
Oscar Wilde is Sooo quotable ... :laugh:
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"Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess."
-- Edna Woolman Chase
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"The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. "
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)
:D
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Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds and proofreaders.
--Me (with thanks and apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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"All you can do is play along in life, and hope sometimes you get it right."
-- Dexter (Michael C. Hall)
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
-- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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"If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong."
-- Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine), "Kung Fu"
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"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
-- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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"It is what you learn after you know it all that counts."
-- John Wooden (1910 - )
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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
-- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
This is a good one to remember in day to day life.
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"Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor."
-- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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"Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor."
-- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
But very true!!!
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"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace."
-- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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This seems to exemplify Annie Proulx!
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
(guilty - again)
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"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."
-- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."
-- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
(guilty - again)
I think we all are!!
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"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities."
-- Winston Churchill
(thanks to Clyde) ;)
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"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities."
-- Winston Churchill
(thanks to Clyde) ;)
;)
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"Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying."
-- Christian Furchtegott Gellert
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"The highest result of education is tolerance."
-- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), "Optimism," 1903
Ah, if only this were true. :(
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"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
(usually attributed to Plato, but that cannot be confirmed)
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“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
- Abraham Lincoln
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"Suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member of Congress.
But I repeat myself."
-- Mark Twain
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"When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it."
- Oscar Wilde
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Since some people find older ideas more valuable, I found this commentary that just might apply to our current condition.
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
***Just learned last night of the demise of Bryan's (favourite) sister. She shot herself - Natives have an extremely high suicidal rate. :'(
It'sThis might be Bryan's second sibbling to pass on from suicide.***
Update: Apparently there will be an investigation - her death is now regarded as 'suspect'. Funeral arangements have been postponed.
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"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
-- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
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“I do not know anything about the Bible. I have no use for preachers. No man ever came to me hungry and went away unfed, or naked and departed unclad. All my life I have tried to live at peace with my fellow man and be a brother to him. The rest I leave with the Great Spirit who placed me here, and whom I trust to do all things well.” -- Jesse Chisholm
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"The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either."
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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"Joy is not in things; it is in us."
-- Richard Wagner
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"Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it."
-- Shakti Gawain
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"A multitude of small delights constitutes happiness."
-- Charles Baudelaire
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"Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent."
-- Marilyn vos Savant
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"Somewhere the hurting must stop ...
I am not a dreamer... But I believe in miracles. I have to" (October 1979)
-- Terry Fox (1958 -1981)
hard to believe but ... http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sports/Only+Canada+Pity/2562841/story.html
NBC's Today Show's Meredith Vieira reported that a leading candidate to light the Olympic cauldron was Betty Fox, the mother of "Michael" Fox, whose Marathon "for" Hope raised money for cancer research. On the screen appeared a picture of Terry Fox, which was quickly replaced by a picture of Michael J. Fox, which was then just as quickly removed altogether.
Some people just don't prepare properly for their work ...
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"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits."
-- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
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SEPERATED AT BIRTH? (in dif'rent centuries, of course)
Beethoven, when discussing his 'Moonlight Sonata':
The work was very popular in Beethoven's day, to the point of exasperating the composer, who remarked to Carl Czerny, "Surely I've written better things."
Leonard Cohen, when discussing his 'Hallelujah':
"I think it's a good song, but I think too many people sing it."
Both quotes are taken from Wikipedia
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. "
-- Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
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Thanks, Roland. That's one of my very favorites. It is nice to remember when you have doubts.
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"One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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"The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it."
-- Harvey Milk
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"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful."
-- Mae West
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"Please don't tell me who you are, because what you are is shouting so loudly I could barely hear you anyway."
- Voltaire
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"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
-- Howard Thurman
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"Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing."
-- Michael Iapoce
;D
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Dennis Hooper just died. For a while, in the early 70's my favourite movie was Easy Rider, a movie he stared in, directed & co-wrote. Here's a comment somebody posted on the article I just read aboout his life ...
"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."
-- Bruce Lee
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A few good line from Easy Rider
"...it's not who you boys are or what you look like, it's what you represent that scares these people."
"Americans talk a lot about the value of freedom, but are actually afraid of anyone who truly exhibits it."
-- Jack Nicholson, as George Hanson, Easy Rider
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Real Eyes
Realize
Real Lies.
-- ?? I wish I knew. I just saw a photo of some graffiti
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_m92PV4Uvo64/TAME4iExzjI/AAAAAAABsYQ/kZYmchA1CMA/s400/real_lies.jpg)
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
-- Mark Twain
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“More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.”
--Harvey Milk
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“Be careful who you hate. It might be someone you love.”
--PFLAG
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I like this little thread. :D
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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
~ Gandhi
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"Please don't tell me who you are because what you are is shouting so loudly I couldn't hear you anyway." Voltaire
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"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy."
-- Robert Anthony
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"Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you."
-- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
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"Mon fils, toi qui devras porter mon nom
Fasses que ce soit pour le bien
Et qu'un jour ce soit ma raison
D'être fier de porter le tien."
de la comédie musicale Don Juan, la chanson Mon fils composée par Félix Gray
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ6ZzR6Nu3A[/youtube]
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"There is more difference within the sexes than between them."
-- Ivy Compton-Burnett
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"The best things in life aren't things."
-- Ann Landers
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"You've got to think so high you're floating like a feather"
-- Ken Tobias (from the 1972 song Dream #2)
***<<< I enjoy it when I wake up, like I did this morning, with this thought of flying and floating like a feather>>> ***
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7u_TGAWl48[/youtube]
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“I want to be in Kentucky when the end of the world comes, because it’s always 20 years behind”
-- Mark Twain.
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I've been to Kentucky - Mr. Twain is, as usual, correct.
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"It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money."
-- W. C. Fields
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The Sheriff makes a rare appearance! Allow me to take this opportunity to wish you a happy birthday!!
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"Peace does not comes through strength.
Quite the opposite: strength comes through peace."
--Sargent Schriver (1915 - 2011)
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"Peace does not comes through strength.
Quite the opposite: strength comes through peace."
--Sargent Schriver (1915 - 2011)
:)
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"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
-- Oscar Wilde
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"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated."
-- Alphonse de Lamartine
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"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair.
So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world."
-- Jack Layton July 18, 1950 - August 22, 2011
- Just 4 months ago, as leader of the New Democratic Party, he became the leader of the opposition after leading his party to a 103 seat showing, nearly doubling the best ever result by this 50 year old party, started by Tommy Douglas, the Father of universal medicare in this country and THE greatest Canadian.
- Jack was also a staunch supporter of Gay right as a councillor on Toronto's city council and has participated in Gay pride parades for over 20 years.
"He was a friend of mine" - even if he didn't know me.
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Thanks for sharing this Sheriff! He sounds like a real leader. I wish I could have known him better.
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(on free speech vs hate speech)
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins"
-- ?? a jurist on Canada's Supreme Court (I think)
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"When you're my age, it's important to have goals"
-- Fauja Singh (centenarian athlete on becoming the world's oldest marathoner)
*** ya think? ***
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Watched Dead Poet Society again recently (I have it on DVD) and was completely taken aback by Todd Anderson's poem ...
I close my eyes and this image floats beside me:
A sweaty-toothed madman with a stare that pounds my brain.
His hands reach out and choke me and all the time he's mumbling
Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold.
You push it, stretch it, it'll never be enough.
You kick it, beat at it, it'll never cover any of us.
From the moment we enter crying to the moment we leave dying
It'll just cover your face as you wail & cry & scream.
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Do you know, I don't think I've ever seen that film. I know its a bit of a classic though - I shold put it on my list.
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Been over a year since I've added to this thread. A bit of levity if you'll allow.
"Any man who can drive carefully while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
-- Albert Einstein 1879 -1956
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"Dreams are sometimes just a visit with old friends"
-- ? ? ? Me?
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"Dreams are sometimes just a visit with old friends"
-- ? ? ? Me?
So whats did you dream about Roland??
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Don't recall - really.
Only that phrase, or an unsatisfying version of it. Had to work on it this morning before posting it. Also googled it to see if anyone famous (or not so much) had ever said something like it.
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(William) Shatner (of Star Trek fame) first connected to (Canadian astronaught, Chris) Hadfield via Twitter on Jan. 3, asking, "Are you tweeting from space?"
Hadfield responded, "Yes, Standard Orbit, Captain. And we're detecting signs of life on the surface."'
funny! :laugh:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/02/07/technology-captain-kirk-chris-hadfield.html
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Graciously accepting her Hall of Fame honours from Nova Scotia songbird Anne Murray:
-- “Of course, this one had a huge impact on me,” said lang onstage, gesturing to Murray. “Phys-ed teacher, bare feet — I had the biggest crush on her and I still do."
“I think the fact that I’m standing here receiving this award says more about Canada than it does about me because only in Canada could as big a freak as k.d. lang be receiving this award … It is OK to be you. It is OK to let your freak flag fly and to embrace the quirkmeister that is in all of us.”
And later backstage she added:
“Not many cultures would allow people like myself or Stompin’ Tom or Rita MacNeil to become national symbols. The fact that they passed gay marriage eons before a lot of other important countries have, Canada is a progressive, liberal country and it makes me very proud to be a part of it.”
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/2013/04/22/why_kd_langs_speech_stole_the_show_at_juno_awards.html
Rita McNeil, who died last week won her first of three Junos (for most promising artist) in the 80's at the age of 42 (http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2008/08/05/rita-macneil-618308.jpg)
Stompin' Tom passed away last month. (http://static.rateyourmusic.com/lk/l/a/8f5a29b267f5095bca1144e3ad5c09ad/1118001.jpg)
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A lyric from a French song Un ami caught me off guard this morning ...
"On perd tout quand on vit dans la peur"
(loosely translated: we lose everything when we live in fear)
-- Nicola Ciccone
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wljlAHj43oY[/youtube]
This was a bit of a realisation: I've lost a lot of my life because of the closet. It's probably also why I've been so adamant in my condemnation of the reaction to the Boston bombing - why I feel that we've lost something cause fear had taken away freedoms.
On a brighter note, I went to see The Wizard of Oz with my sister (and brother-in-law) this week. (She's the one that really wanted to see it.) In addition to being the most spectacular theatrical production I've ever seen (I've not seen a lot of them - but it was sooo much better than last year's War Horse), it was choke full of surprizing tidbits - like when the lion blurts out 'I'm a friend of Dorothy'. The audience didn't react to this line (like they did for lines like 'The lion sleeps tonight' or "I'm a dandy lion!"). I explained to my sister the context of the line (I'm a friend of Dorothy), and she looked it up on Wikipedia. I've never had such an 'gay' converstion with members of my family before. I've yet to come out to any of them but I suspect that that cat's been out of the bag for a some time.
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Roland, do one thing every week that scares you! :)
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The final mystery -
is oneself.
-- Oscar Wilde
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Age is just a number & I hope mine's unlisted.
-- An 89 year old WWII vet
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Good one, Sheriff!
And, good to see around these parts.
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I second that!
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Hiya Sherrif! Good to see ya here!
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Hi Roland!